Rainy Rough Day

You know it was a rough day, when you didn't pick up your camera to take a single picture. We started our day early, we reset up the yard sale and was open for business by 7a. The plan was that after Keree woke up, got dressed and fed, we would then head about an hour west to the first meeting of a International Single Mom's playgroup. My Mom would stay home and watch the yard sale. When, Keree woke up, she just didn't feel well. I convinced her to get dressed but then she wanted to just stay inside and watch a movie. So why fight. Finally, I convinced her to head outside, I built her a little tent over her chair and so she watched her movie outside. Well right about the time we were suppose to leave, it started to pour down rain. My Mom and I hurried as quickly as we could to get everything back under the tents. We then sat outside and debated if we were going to keep trying with everything packed under the tents. Keree was in no shape to go to a playgroup and finally after checking the radar for the millionth time, we decided the rain won. We did leave the house for a short time in the rain, just to take down our yard sale signs. I spent the rest of the day working, while Keree spent her time resting and watching movies.

1st day of October

Keree was so excited that it was October and she got to wear her first halloween shirt of the season.

Hearing & Eye Screening

Keree had a good day at pre-school. The summary said that they cooked mini-apple pies, read another book about apples and learned a new apple song. When we got home, the homeschool coordinator was scheduled to come out. They had to finish up a few more tests, so today Keree got her hearing and eye sight tested. She passed with flying colors. Since the test went so quickly, they read a few books together before our Coordinator had to leave. We spent the rest of the day going through boxes and setting up for our yard sale that starts tomorrow.

Bike Riding

Spooky Picture

Keree was so excited for school this morning because she was going to draw a spooky picture to hang on our front door. So after dropping Keree off at school, I ran some errands, specifically in search of some black ribbon (which I was unsuccessful in finding). When I came to pick Keree up, the summary said that they cut up apple slices and looked at them under the microscope, celebrated Nicole's 5th birthday, read a book on babies and learned a new song. Keree was so excited when she came out of her classroom because she had drawn a spooky picture. On her picture, she drew a jack-o-lantern and a spooky spider attacking the television. When we got home, we spent the rest of the day/afternoon outside dragging stuff out of the garage for the yard sale we are trying to throw together at the last minute. Then this evening, we had cheerleading practice. I about died when we walked up there and Keree goes "Look the Coach is finally back." She didn't mean it that way, she honestly was excited the Coach was there, it just came out a little misworded. Now the Coach, she was a little snooty at first, she goes "well I heard that you guys learned some new cheers while I was gone." Well it turned out, they had actually learned about 7 new cheers. The Coach spent the evening teaching the girls a new half time dance. It was rough on all the girls because it is so much more complicated then the one they learned before. We all agreed they will learn it, it's just going to take alot of practice. After practice was finished, we grabbed some dinner, headed home and shortly there after, went to bed.

Muffin Tin Monday

None of us wanted to get out of bed this morning. The swing in weather and allergies are really messing with us. My head feels like it's going to blow up from sinus pressure and poor Keree just keeps going "I've got a headache, fix it Mommy." So we slowly dragged ourselves out the door and I dropped her off at school. When I walked in with her, the child who had hit her with the toy, was pitching a fit, throwing stuff, hitting, biting and the Main Teacher was trying to get him under control but he was too far gone. Keree hid behind me and a few of the other Mom's held their kids until he was removed from the class to calm down. I thought about leaving with her but then I thought why should she be the one to miss class. So, I told her that she should try and avoid him at all costs. And if that he started in on a tantrum that she was to find the Assistant Teacher and stay by her. I firmly told her again, do not be around him if he's throwing one of these fits. While Keree was in class, I ran to the craft store for one thing. I ended up walking through the store and I'm glad I did. They had a ton of stuff in the Clearance aisle marked down to 25 cents. I ended up getting complete matching stationary sets, sets of wooden stamps, sets of clear stamps, scrapbook albums, complete wilton cookie cutters sets, decorative file folders and journals. My Christmas shopping for all our Aunts, Great-Aunts, Girl Cousins, Bro's Girlfriend & Grandmas is done!! I came out with 4 of the Huge Shopping bags brimming to the rim and only spent $22. So that only leaves a handful of Boy Cousins and Uncles to buy for. So when I picked Keree up, the summary said that they played outside, read the book "The New Baby" and discussed what it's like to have a new baby. Again, why is having a baby being discussed in class, my opinion again is it should be a subject to be talked about at home. Keree also drew a picture, it was of her Grandma standing by Mickey Mouse, the angry looking guy is the Wildcat mascot we saw, there was a Flying Shoe and a house. When we got home, Keree got to play outside for awhile because the wind had finally died down and the sun was shining bright. She had so much fun riding her bike up and down the sidewalk. Finally, it was past 1230p, so we headed inside and I started work on her Muffin Tin. This week was no theme, so it was a cross between Fall and favorite foods. In the top compartment is some ranch dip, then the compartments on each side of the dip was imitation crab meat, next up was some carrots. Then it was the most favorite item I made, Pumpkins, I used circus peanuts and rolled them around and I decided to use broken pieces of pretzels for the stems. Next up was a Spider, it looked cute at first but feel apart in transition to take pictures of it. It was sitting on a triangle tortilla chip web, it had cheese matchstick legs, topped with a cheddar cheese potato chip and finally his eyes were pieces of bread. And to finish off this lunch, Kitty Cat heads cut out of harvest thin bread. Keree ate a majority of her lunch but just didn't seem to have the energy to finish it. We ended up reviewing Lesson 47 since we had such a big break and then decided to start a new Lesson tomorrow. When she went to take her nap, I ended up spending the majority of the time rubbing her legs because they hurt. Also even though she was tired, she was fighting tooth and nail not to fall asleep. Finally she did, when she woke up, she said she didn't feel too hot. She didn't want to get out of bed, so she spent the majority of the evening sitting in bed, coloring and drinking liquids. We did leave for a short time because I didn't feel like cooking, so we picked up a pizza.

A Cold, Rainy Sunday

It's amazing that it was in the high 90's yesterday and today it's just down right cold and wet. Even though Keree was up before 6a, she decided it was too cold to get up and instead curled up next to me, we watched the news and then PBS together. Once we finally started our day, it was close to 11am. We spent what was left of the morning and some of the early afternoon, packing away most of our summer clothes and hanging up our winter clothes. Keree decided while I did that, she needed to organize her toys. Around 1p, we headed back downstairs. We had planned on doing school and Keree laying down for a nap but honestly, we got sidetracked. I spent the rest of the day working on business stuff, while Keree spent her time playing nearby. We only ventured out for a short time to take pictures and then headed right back in. All the while Keree's exclaiming "it's super, super cold and windy." As for our evening, we called my Aunt and wished her a Happy Birthday. My brother also called and we talked to him for quite awhile. It looks like he's going to make a quick trip home in October because he really wants to see Keree cheer. Otherwise, Keree headed to bed by 8a because she was super tired and I've been trying to finish up some work before heading to bed.